ArkBackup is a professional tool that helps to protect your important data from irreparable loss or damage. It can help to create backup for your disk files, Windows Registry keys, remote files(FTP) and web files(HTTP) by schedule, and of course, you can do it at any time too. All these operations are performed in the background. And ArkBackup uses the unique "project/task" based concept to organize your backup jobs, which makes ArkBackup much easier-to-use and easier-to-learn.

ArkBackup supports to create three types of backup archive:

• ArkBackup archive file (.abkf file)
• ZIP package (Zip64 is supported)
• Original file

ArkBackup archive file (.abkf file) is the file format powered by ArkBackup Software Inc., and is generated by ArkBackup Backup Engine, which can maximize the effect of ArkBackup features. It supports incremental backup, data compressing and encrypting, archive splitting etc. And the most prominent is, it is much faster than most of other primary backup or file compressing tools. When restoring, you can view the .abkf archive file in an well organized and intuitionistic viewer for your backed up data. All of your data are organized by "timing catalog" and "disk trees" so that you can find anything very easily. You can restore the full archive(all up-to-date data), or just restore a specified catalog, tree, or just some files.

ArkBackup also can create ZIP package file for your data (files and Windows Registry keys) if you need.

For the "original file" type of backup, ArkBackup just copies the specified files and folders to another disk folder. All files keep the original form(.reg file for Windows Registry keys backup). In general, this is useful when you need to make a files synchronization.

ArkBackup supports Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista, and requires approximately 6MB of free disk space.

Key features of ArkBackup:

• Fast - The ArkBackup Backup Engine uses the inimitable algorithm developed by ourselves to create backup archive (.abkf). Under the same conditions, e.g. compress data or not, encrypt or not, ArkBackup always much faster than most of other primary backup or file compressing tools.
   
• Multiple backup sources - ArkBackup Backup Engine supports to backup disk files, Windows Registry keys, remote files(FTP), web files(HTTP) and Windows environment (e.g. Desktop icons positions, etc) inherently. And ArkBackup also supports plug-ins. You can download plug-ins for your backup job, e.g. plug-in for backing up Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, etc.
   
• Advanced project-based operation - All backup jobs are organized by projects and tasks. A project is an operation unit. E.g. you can create a task which for backing up the data files and create another task to backup some related keys in Windows Registry. Organize these two tasks in one project, since they are integrative.
   
• Flexible backup types - ArkBackup supports incremental backup (only for .abkf archive) and fully backup. Fully backup creates a full copy of your up-to-date data every time. Whereas the incremental backup backs up the whole sources at the first time, and then only backs up the changed files since last backup. This can decrease the amount of backup time obviously.
   
• Multiple backup archive types - Besides the official archive type - ArkBackup backup archive (.abkf file), ArkBackup can also create ZIP package archive and original files/folders to meet your multiple requirements.
   
• Reliable security - ArkBackup allows to set a password for your backed up data, then ArkBackup encrypts your data with a highly strong encrypt arithmetic so that anyone else who doesn't have a correct password can't open/restore and read your data.
   
• Flexible and powerful scheduler - You can specify a flexible schedule for running a project by schedule. E.g. once, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly.
   
• Flexible and powerful actions - You can specify multiple types of actions before and/or after backing up. E.g. run a program, copy/move/remove files, ftp upload files and burning CD/DVDs.
   
• Flexible restore options - For ArkBackup archive file (.abkf file), all of your data are organized by "timing catalog" and "disk trees". You can restore the full archive(the uptodate of your backed up files), or just restore a specified catalog, tree, or just one file.
   
• Supports Volume Shadow Copy - This feature allows you to back up open files (local) from NTFS partitions in Windows (x86).
   
• Supports Unicode - The files with any type of characters (such as Japanese, Chinese, Korean or middle east) in its name can be backed up and restored without any problems.
   
• Supports archive splitting - ArkBackup supports to split the backup archive to multiple specs. E.g. 640MB(CD), 4.3GB(DVD), etc. This can help to burn a large archive to multiple medias such as CD, DVD discs.